“But I realized pretty quickly that I liked writing first-person short stories. “I wanted him to be a conspiracy theorist who thinks ESPN, the SEC and the NCAA are against Georgia,” he said. He wrote that he, as a youth football coaching legend, had prepared a video of all 29 missed holding calls and had sent it to the SEC offices, as well as several law enforcement agencies, in an effort to have the game result overturned. The first thing he remembers posting in character to the Rivals message boards was a long diatribe after Georgia narrowly lost the 2012 SEC Championship Game to Alabama. He spent much of his life closely following the SEC and always has been amused by - and, sometimes, perhaps a little guilty of participating in - crazy fan behavior. The man behind the tweets grew up in a small north Georgia town, graduating from UGA with both his undergraduate and law degrees. This is the story of the alternate world he’s created and why he hopes his absurdist levity helps folks feel a little less anxious, especially at a time like this. He eventually compiled those stories on his website and in what became his first book. There, he goes by “Nascar Dawg” and spent the first several years of his existence regaling other members of the Rivals network site with tales of his prowess and his great ideas for the UGA football program. In fact, the character first appeared years ago on the message board. The only real similarity between Coach Letterman and his creator? Die-hard Georgia Bulldogs fandom. “Coach Letterman” has been blocked by Joel Osteen, Scott Baio, Antonio Brown, Lincoln Riley and a bevy of other celebrities who either didn’t get the joke or were annoyed by it. “I’ve always tried to strike a balance between keeping things light and making people laugh without ever having it delve into something that I think is mean-spirited or is not appropriately respectful at the right times.” You have to reserve your emotions for those times.
My view is that about 0.01 percent of the time, things happen that are truly important and truly matter. “That’s one thing I’ve observed on Twitter - just how seriously people take themselves. “If nothing else, what I wanted the account to do is make people not take themselves so seriously,” he said. He asked that his identity not be publicized, but agreed to a phone interview with The Athletic to discuss his character and what it’s become. The last time he slept in a waterbed was as a child, at a friend’s house. No, the man behind the tweets is a successful, accomplished millennial attorney who lives north of the Mason-Dixon line and is, basically, the diametric opposite of the character he’s created.
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The man behind the tweets isn’t the actor you see portraying Coach in his profile picture, the series and other digital mediums, like Periscope videos and podcasts. The series creators are currently shopping the show to networks and streaming services. The account has more than 176,000 followers and inspired a mockumentary-style web series, now in its second season, that follows “Coach Letterman,” his team and his friends. Whatever your level of familiarity, there probably aren’t many active Twitter users - especially those who closely follow sports - who haven’t at least come across who spends his days telling the world all the absurd reasons his “legendary” life is superior to anyone else’s and reminding all that “an hour in the weight room is more valuable than a lifetime in the classroom.” Or maybe you’ve just occasionally stumbled across his barrage of replies to high-profile accounts, like those of Donald Trump, LeBron James or Chrissy Teigen. Maybe you understand the satire but find him irritating.
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